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...Joker. Moreover-and this sent Britons cabling home for instructions-Russia would accept payment for her wares in local currency and spend the money in the country of origin. Peking Banker Nan Han-chen, the chief Chinese delegate, was equally specific about Chinese wants. Said one Briton: "These people [the Chinese] didn't come here to shoot off hot air, but to do business." Down in the fine print was the joker: the West must end its embargo against the Soviet bloc, and especially against Red China...
...tremendous improvement." In the first, the Crimson held tough Dartmouth--last year's carnival winner--down to a 0 to 5 loss, while in the second it thrashed the same British Navy squad 11 to 3. Coach Calhoun made the firm touchdown, after a scrum, and Jim Call han kicked for goal successfully. Pete Irving and "Whitey" Black made two further touchdowns...
South Korea is still governed from the provisional capital at Pusan, but last week advance teams of government officers were in Seoul paving the way for an early return to the capital. A few unwelcome citizens were coming back too. Angry residents caught one enterprising Communist on the Han bridge with a supply of explosives and hanged him on the spot from the girders of the bridge he sought to destroy...
Lattimore was pleased, he wrote Carter, at the I.P.R.'s plans to survey the issues of the Sino-Japanese War. "I think that you are pretty cagey in turning over so much of the China section of the inquiry to Asiaticus, Han-seng and Chi [all since identified as Chinese Communists], They will bring out the absolutely essential radical aspects, but can be depended on to do it with the right touch...
Heavy steel bridging equipment, the first of its kind seen in North Korea, was lashed to freight cars and headed south. A possible use: to bridge the Han on a drive to Seoul...